Melania G. Mazzucco - Veled vagyok - Brigitte history

Brigitte is a Red Cross nurse and hospital owner in the Congo. In the beginning, he treated his patients for free in his apartment, later he treated his patients at a modest fee in his clinics. A devout Catholic, she is the mother of four children. After an anti-government demonstration, seven wounded oppositionists are taken to his hospital. The demonstration is drowned in blood, and the same evening a colonel arrives at the clinic with a bottle of formalin so that Brigitte can get rid of the seven rebels. He also brings a checkbook, because they don't ask for free. The woman refuses the "request".
The revenge campaign begins: they break into her at night, drag her away, humiliate her in every possible way as a human being and as a woman, and she only escapes death thanks to a former patient. He is kicked out of the country and dumped into the unknown at the Rome airport. A Jesuit on his journey of service embraces him and guides him through the mazes of the immigration office. This is how his second life begins from scratch with no money, no knowledge of the Italian language, no friends, no family, on a foreign continent. "On the edge of nowhere."
It's not an ordinary refugee case. Here we are not talking about young men who want to try their luck in Europe, but about a settled woman who had no intention of leaving her country - however, murder is incompatible with her conscience and the Hippocratic oath.

Melania G. Mazzucco has written this moving and thought-provoking story with tactful attention, empathy and objectivity, which began in January 2013 after a tragic turn, and it is not known how it will end. Brigitte, who devoted her life to healing in her country, could only lose in the sick game of Congolese politics. How much is the life of an outcast worth to Rome?